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Income Tax Refund Status
Provides the information on how to check IT Refund Status & explains Probable Outputs of Refund Status
How to check your IT Refund Status
To check the Refund Status, you need to have the below information
- PAN
- Assessment year
Assessment Year (AY) means: It is the twelve-month period 1st April to 31st March immediately following the financial year. In the Assessment year a person files his return for the income earned in the financial year. For example for FY: 2018-19 the AY is 2019-20.
according to above image tax payers have to enter PAN number & select the relevant assessment year.
Probable IT Refund Status that may come across are
- Your assessing officer has not sent this refund to Refund Banker.
- Refund is already credited to your bank, please contact your bank.
- Unable to credit refund as the account number provided by you is incorrect.
- Refund cheque has been enchased: It means cheque issued by the IT department has been received by the taxpayer and has been enchased.
- Refund expired: If income-tax refund cheque is not presented within 90 days, it will expire. In this case, the taxpayer has to apply for re-issue of cheque.
- Refund returned: This means cheque sent via Speed Post is not delivered and is returned back to IT department. In this case, the refund is cancelled and the taxpayer has to apply for reissue of the cheque.
- Refund adjustment: Refund adjusted against previous year’s outstanding demand, this status appears when there is an outstanding demand which is not been paid, such demand has been adjusted against the refund. But before adjusting the same, department will send a notice intimating the adjustment.